Belgium
Name of organisation EFECOT
Address1
Address2 Grensstraat 6
Town Brussels
Postcode B-1210
Country Belgium
Phone 32 - 2 - 227 40 66
Fax 32 - 2 - 227 40 69
E-mail kasper.peters@efecot.net
URL www.efecot.net
Managing Director Ludo Knaepkens
Delegate 1 Kasper Peters
Job title Project Manager
Responsibilities Project Management of
European Projects,
co-financed by DGXIII, in
the area of education and
traing
Delegate 2
Job title
Responsibilities
Company size 1-10
Key activities EFECOT is an NGO active in the field of education and
training to travelling communities (i.e. fairground, bargee,
circus communities and seasonal workers). From its
headquarters in Brussels, it initiates and manages an ever
growing number of projects, mostly in close association with
the European Commission. EFECOT works together with
more than 150 partners all over Europe.
Key products 1. Multimedia learning packages for pre-school education and
vocational training
2. Technological Learning Environment (under development)
3. Learning packs for in-service training of teachers
4. Learner follow-up systems
5. Paper-based learning materials
EU projects - TOPILOT (Telematics Applications Programme)
- FLEX (Multimedia Task Force)
- Multiple projects in the framework of Socrates, Comenius
- TRAFE (Leonardo Programme)
Non-EU funded projects
Countries of Interest
No Austria No Belgium Yes Czech Republic
Yes Denmark Yes Estonia Yes Finland
No France No Germany No Greece
Yes Hungary No Iceland No Italy
No Latvia No Lithuania No Luxembourg
No Netherlands No Norway No Poland
No Portugal No Republic of Ireland Yes Romania
Yes Slovakia Yes Slovenia No Spain
No Sweden No Switzerland No UK
Specific Sectors
Yes Authoring and Design Systems
Yes Content Management and Personalisation
No Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Yes Education and Training
Areas of Interest
No 3D and virtual reality
Yes Applications software
No CD-ROM/DVD/Multimedia
No Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
Yes User interfaces
Yes Web design
Areas of Specialisation
No 3D and virtual reality
Yes Applications software
No Artificial intelligence
Yes CD-ROM/DVD/multimedia
No Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
Yes User interfaces
Yes Web design
Name of organisation Union of International Associations (UIA)
Address1 40 rue Washington
Address2
Town Brussels
Postcode B-1050
Country Belgium
Phone (32 2) 640 18 08
Fax (32 2) 643 61 99
E-mail judge@uia.be
URL http://www.uia.org/
Managing Director Jacques Raeymaeckers
Delegate 1 Anthony Judge
Job title Director, Communications and Research
Responsibilities Software development for
publication, CD and web
delivery including VRML
interfaces
Delegate 2
Job title
Responsibilities
Company size 11-50
Key activities Management and development of large databases profiling
and hyperlinking international nonprofit organizations, world
problems, strategies, values, international meetings, and the
links between them. Output as reference books, CD, and web.
Concerned with user involvement in participative editing over
the web and development of meaningful interfaces using
graphic structures as mnemonic and integrating tools
(integrating cognitive functions of aesthetics). Total profiles
approx, 150,000; total hyperlinks, approx. 1 million.
Key products Yearbook of International Organizations (4 vols) profiling over
20,000 organizations
Who's Who in International Organizations
International Congress Calendar (quarterly)
Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Poential (3 vols)
etc.
EU projects DGXIII- Info2000: Project on Biodiversity Conservation in an
Information context (Jan 1998-Dec 1999):
http://www.uia.org/projects/brochure.htm
DG-XI: Database demonstration project for the Healthy Planet
Forum (June 1999) on the occasion of the Ministerial
conference on Environment and Health
Non-EU funded projects Agence pour la Francophonie (1995-7): Production on CD of a
French version of the database of the Yearbook of
International Organizations
Countries of Interest
Yes Austria No Belgium Yes Czech Republic
No Denmark No Estonia No Finland
No France No Germany No Greece
Yes Hungary No Iceland No Italy
No Latvia No Lithuania No Luxembourg
No Netherlands No Norway Yes Poland
No Portugal No Republic of Ireland No Romania
No Slovakia No Slovenia No Spain
No Sweden No Switzerland No UK
Specific Sectors
No Authoring and Design Systems
No Content Management and Personalisation
No Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage
No Education and Training
Areas of Interest
Yes 3D and virtual reality
Yes Applications software
Yes CD-ROM/DVD/Multimedia
No Content Owner
No Search engines
Yes Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
Yes User interfaces
Yes Web design
Areas of Specialisation
Yes 3D and virtual reality
Yes Applications software
No Artificial intelligence
Yes CD-ROM/DVD/multimedia
Yes Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
Yes User interfaces
Yes Web design
Name of organisation University of Ghent
Address1 Departement of Electronics and Information Systems
Address2 Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41
Town Ghent
Postcode B-9000
Country Belgium
Phone +32-9-240.40.70
Fax +32-9-240.49.69
E-mail rik.vandewalle@elis.rug.ac.be
URL http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/elisgroups/mbv/vandewalle/
Managing Director Ignace Lemahieu
Delegate 1 Rik Van de Walle
Job title Post-doctoral fellow
Responsibilities Research, project
management
Delegate 2
Job title
Responsibilities
Company size 500+
Key activities The University of Ghent has more than 22,000 students, and
is one of the major universities in Belgium. The University of
Ghent is a "full university", which means that a very broad
range of disciplines is covered in both educational (B.Sc.,
M.Sc., and Ph.D. level) and research activities.
The MEDISIP (MEDical Image and SIgnal Processing) group
is a part of the ELIS department (ELectronics and Information
Systems), which, on its turn, is a part of the faculty of applied
sciences.
Key products Medical imaging: MR, SPECT, PET, CT
Signal processing: EEG, ECG
Multimedia
Compression of images and signals
Internet-based applications: sending images through the
internet
EU projects EC Brite-Euram project 41.D001.97 (Multi-sensor inspection
system for component testing: towards more reliable NDT
applications)
Non-EU funded projects 12 major projects finished during the last 5 years; funded by
the Fund for Scientific Research (Brussels, Belgium), the
University of Ghent (Belgium), industrial partners, Flemish
Institute for the Promotion of Scientific-Technological
Research in the Industry (Belgium)
Currently: 11 major research projects, funded by the same
institutions and the European Commission
Countries of Interest
Yes Austria Yes Belgium Yes Czech Republic
Yes Denmark Yes Estonia Yes Finland
Yes France Yes Germany Yes Greece
Yes Hungary Yes Iceland Yes Italy
Yes Latvia Yes Lithuania Yes Luxembourg
Yes Netherlands Yes Norway Yes Poland
Yes Portugal Yes Republic of Ireland Yes Romania
Yes Slovakia Yes Slovenia Yes Spain
Yes Sweden Yes Switzerland Yes UK
Specific Sectors
Yes Authoring and Design Systems
Yes Content Management and Personalisation
No Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Yes Education and Training
Areas of Interest
Yes 3D and virtual reality
Yes Applications software
Yes CD-ROM/DVD/Multimedia
No Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
No User interfaces
No Web design
Areas of Specialisation
Yes 3D and virtual reality
Yes Applications software
No Artificial intelligence
Yes CD-ROM/DVD/multimedia
No Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
Yes User interfaces
No Web design